Overview
- Presents the latest scientific information in applied plant breeding
- Features the current advances in the field, from an efficient use of genetic resources to the impact of biotechnology in plant breeding
- Illustrated with both detailed line drawings and color photos
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbook of Plant Breeding (HBPB, volume 8)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Small Fruit
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Fruit Breeding is the eighth volume in the Handbook of Plant Breeding series. Like the other volumes in the series, this volume presents information on the latest scientific information in applied plant breeding using the current advances in the field, from an efficient use of genetic resources to the impact of biotechnology in plant breeding. The majority of the volume showcases individual crops, complemented by sections dealing with important aspects of fruit breeding as trends, marketing and protection of new varieties, health benefits of fruits and new crops in the horizon. The book also features contributions from outstanding scientists for each crop species.
Maria Luisa Badenes
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Valencia, Spain
David Byrne
Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Fruit Breeding comprises reviews of the development of new varieties of commercial fruit species … . Each chapter contains an introduction, a historical overview of crop origin and domestication, major breeding accomplishments, current goals and challenges, breeding methods and techniques, biotechnologies in use, and a detailed list of references cited. The chapters provide significant … details and leave the reader with a clear picture of the current status and some future goals of the breeding of each fruit. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” (D. D. Archbold, Choice, Vol. 50 (1), September, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fruit Breeding
Editors: Marisa Luisa Badenes, David H. Byrne
Series Title: Handbook of Plant Breeding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0763-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0762-2Published: 16 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3904-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0763-9Published: 13 January 2012
Series ISSN: 2363-8478
Series E-ISSN: 2363-8486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 875
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Sciences, Agriculture